<div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The guards lead Dionysus off. Pentheus follows.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div>CHORUS</div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Queen</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Dirce, you are</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>the daughter</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>of Achelous;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>holy</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Dirce, more</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>than holy, for</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>to you Zeus</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>once</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>touched his</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>child, touched him</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>to your waters</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>as he tore</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>him from the unrelenting</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>fire</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>and placed him</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>in his thigh and</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>roared:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><i>You</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>are Dithyrambus!</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Into my male</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>womb, come!</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>You</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>are Bacchus!</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Come, I will</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>reveal you to</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Thebes!</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>You</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>are Bacchus!</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>They</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>shall call</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>you</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Bacchus!</i></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>But you, Dirce,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>blessed</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>river, you</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>thrust me from</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>you, you thrust the</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>garlanded</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>bands who dance</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>near you. Why</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>thrust me from</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>you this way? Whyy</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>shun me</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>so? Soon,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>though, by</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>the luscious grapes</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>of Dionysus'&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>vines, I swear</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>soon the name</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Bromius</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>will have</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>a meaning for</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>you, too.</div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Rage, and</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>rage and rage</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>is what</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>he, this</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>earth-child,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>this</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Pentheus,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>dragon's&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>seed, this&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>monstrous</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>son&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>of Echion,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>reveals, an earth-</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>child, just&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>as the monstrous</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>giants are,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>children of</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>the earth, as</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>they, gory, wild -</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>faced, rage, so</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>he, daring</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>daring to dare</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>gods, rages, and</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>will</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>dare, soon,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>too, to</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>threaten</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>me, with chains,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>and who</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>already, in</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>his house, in&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>the darkness of&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>his prison,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>has&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>my dancing&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>comrade.</div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Do</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>you see us?</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Do you</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>see these</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>things, son</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>of Zeus?</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Dionysus,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>do you see</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>our battle,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>our suffering</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>in</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>oppression?</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Come, be</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>with us, come</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>down from</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"</span>Olympus,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>come whirl</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>your thyrsus with</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>its golden</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>face</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>quell</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>this vile person's</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>insolence</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>and violence!</div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Are you on</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Nysa now, which</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>nurtures</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>beasts, or are</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>you now,&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Dionysus,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>guiding with your</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>wand bands</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>of dancers in</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>the mountains of</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Corycia?</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Or on</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Olympus, in</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>the forest</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>where</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Orpheus played</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>his lyre and brought,&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>with his</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>muse, the</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>trees&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>to him and</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>the ferocious</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>beasts to</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>him, are</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>you there? Oh,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Pieria,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>blessed,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>honors you and with</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>your own cries,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Evius, honors</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>you, and he</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>will come</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>and dance</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>in Bacchic</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>celebrations, and</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>over the</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>roaring river</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Axios will</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>spin</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>his Maenads, and</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>over the</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>rich</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>waters&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>of Lydias</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>spin them,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Lydias,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>bliss-giver,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>father, whose lovely</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>waters make that</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>land of horses</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>gleam.</div>